They should not be monsters that vote to take away fundamental human rights - no matter how awful their district.
What if we called student loan forgiveness an “Education Bailout”. Think we could get shitty people on board for it then?
The Dems need to means test to not piss off people that won’t vote for them is a tradition unlike any other. Add to it the ability to double down ways to piss off people who might makes them :chefs kiss:
Maybe if he took the LSD first and fucked off in the woods for a while he wouldn't be such a shithead
the next two tweets in the thread lay it out that the bill is very simple and its just firming up the 60
So basically he is adding fuel to the fire. He’s practically handing the opposition ammunition. He’s pretty much saying student loan debt forgiveness isn’t necessary nor the right thing to do but he wants to buy votes.
you know what will get great message penetration republicans claiming bidens doing loan forgiveness for political credit good way for everyone to know it happened and biden did it
Shits maddening. Cancel the fucking interest on student loans. Quit allowing banks to pray on students when the loans are nearly 99.999% guaranteed
I know it goes without saying, but there’s literally no reason to not vote for that marriage bill. It doesn’t even codify gay marriage. All it does is require states to recognize marriages of other states. Otherwise it leaves the issue of marriage to the states. At least that’s what I had read in the past
I had never heard of the Powell Memo Where Did the Religious Nuttery Come From? Spoiler Minneapolis residents Jess and John Pentz — a couple who’ve been married for 17 years — were traveling through Hayward, Wisconsin over the 4th of July weekend when Jess realized she’d forgotten to bring her birth control pills. They pulled into the local Hayward Walgreens pharmacy, where Jess picked up a box of condoms from a shelf and handed them to the clerk manning the register “Manning” seems to be the right verb here: “John,” the Walgreens clerk, refused to ring them up. Jess, confused, asked him why, pointing to the shelf where she’d picked up the condoms. “We can sell that to you,” clerk “John” told Jess with a smirk, “but I won’t because of my faith.” There’s no law in America against being an ass, so this Walgreens clerk was entirely within his rights to behave like one. But, because of five Republicans on the Supreme Court, it now is problematic — and soon could be against the law nationwide, if Clarence Thomas gets his way — for Walgreens to fire him for “exercising his faith” when working in a drugstore. The vast majority of Americans, opinion research shows, think a situation like this is absurd. As Jennifer Brooks notes in an article about the Pentz’s experience for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “When the Pew Research Center surveyed American attitudes about birth control, just 4% viewed contraception as morally wrong. Condoms protect us from disease and prevent unwanted pregnancies. What's not to like?” And what’s so astonishing about the entire situation is that we have reached this point not because the American public wants religious doctrine running our law, and not because most religious people agree with an arrogant prick working at Walgreens. Instead, it’s because a small group of rightwing billionaires didn’t want to pay their taxes, wanted to get rid of their unions, and didn’t want regulation of the pollution from their refineries and other operations. Seriously. They put billions of dollars over five decades into a project to seize control of the legislatures of a majority of the states, jam up the US Congress, and pack the Supreme Court — and it was all about taxes, unions, and regulation. So where did the religious nuttery come from? The rightwing billionaires and the corporations and foundations aligned with them knew back in 1971 — when Lewis Powell laid out their strategy in his infamous Powell Memo the year before Nixon put him on the Supreme Court — that most Americans wouldn’t happily vote to lower billionaires’ taxes, end unions and regulation of gun manufacturers, or increase the amount of refinery poisons in our air. So the strategy they came up with to capture control of our government was pretty straightforward: *Convince Americans that taxes aren’t “the cost of a civil society” but, instead, a “burden” that they were unfairly bearing. Once Republicans were elected on that tax-cut platform, they’d massively cut the taxes of the morbidly rich while throwing a small bone to the average person. *Convince Americans that regulations that protect consumers and the environment are also “burdens” from an out-of-control “nanny state,” even though such regulations save lives and benefit Americans far more than they cost. *Convince Americans that unions aren’t “democracy in the workplace” that protect workers’ rights but, instead, an elaborate scam to raid workers’ paychecks to the benefit of “corrupt union bosses.” To pull these off, they spent five decades and billions of dollars to subsidize think tanks and policy groups at both the federal and state level; there’s now an extensive network of them reaching from coast-to-coast, all turning out policy papers and press releases the way bunnies have babies. But it wasn’t quite enough to get the political power they needed. They sponsored rightwing talk radio to the tune of millions of dollars a year (just Limbaugh and Hannity’s shows got over a million a year each) and Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch rolled out Fox “News” to compliment the propaganda campaign. Later would come social media bots and trolls, along with thousands of new websites pretending to be local newspapers. Still, that wasn’t quite enough to get them the political power they needed. They hooked up with the NRA, which helped sponsor the Reagan Revolution and was richly rewarded with laws that forbade the federal government from compiling gun death statistics and gave complete immunity from lawsuits to weapons manufacturers and sellers for the damage their products cause (the only industry in America that enjoys such immunity). And they finally got a lot of Americans to go along with their plan, because they’d added in a religious “secret sauce.” More on that in a moment. The Reagan presidency was their first major victory; in eight short years he cut union membership in America almost in half, dropped the taxes on billionaires from a top 74% bracket down to 27%, and slashed thousands of protective regulations, particularly around guns and the environment. Over the 40 years of the Reagan revolution, we’ve gone from having about the same gun-ownership density as Canada (around 15 guns per 100 people) to the most in the world (over 120 guns per 100 people). We’re now drenched in blood: guns kill more American children than drunk drivers or any other cause. But hating on unions, taxes, and the environment — and loving on guns — wasn’t enough to reliably win elections over the long run. They needed a larger bullhorn, a way of reaching into the lives of additional tens of millions of American voters who really didn’t much care about those issues. That’s where Jerry Falwell and his friends came into the picture. Falwell was an inveterate grifter, hustling Jesus to build a multi-million-dollar empire while ignoring Jesus’ teachings about humility, poverty, and the need to care for others. A new, muscular Jesus — a Jesus who endorsed assault weapons and private jets for preachers — came to dominate much of America’s protestant Christianity. This Jesus wanted you to get rich — riches, they said, are a sign of God’s blessing — and the “prosperity gospel” and all its perverted cousins were being preached on TV and in megachurches across the nation throughout the 1980s. Reagan brought his vice president’s son — a young drunk named George W. Bush who got sober with Jesus’ help (and a threat from his parents and wife) — and Bush forged an alliance between the Reagan campaign and the then-emerging phenomenon of Falwell/Bakker/Graham/Robertson televangelists. The televangelists became multimillionaires, churches openly defied IRS regulations and preached politics from the pulpit, and millions of mostly non-political church-goers were suddenly evangelists not just for Jesus but also for the Republican Party. As a sop to them, Reagan (who’d signed the nation’s most liberal abortion legislation as CA Governor) became “pro-life” as did his VP, GHW Bush, who — along with his wife, Barbara — had previously been big supporters of Planned Parenthood. With this dramatically expanded base of voters, Republican politicians went on a 40-year spree of cutting taxes, deregulating polluting industries, hustling guns, and busting unions. To keep the rubes coming to the churches where they’d hear that GOP message, Republicans on the Supreme Court had to throw them the occasional bone. Giving bakers the right to tell gay people wanting a wedding cake to screw off was one of them, setting up the “religious right” of pharmacists to refuse to sell condoms. Churches kept getting richer and Republicans kept getting elected, but most people didn’t realize the symbiosis at work. At first, these seemed problematic to many Americans, but, like Pastor Niemöller, it only affected a small minority of us and typically did so in ways that weren’t particularly public. Everybody figured it was somebody else’s problem, and the people being hurt were mostly marginalized minorities. Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v Wade, however, people are waking up to this unholy alliance between religious grifters in the White Evangelical movement, the Supreme Court, and the GOP. Half the population is now in their crosshairs. It’s no longer just a matter of that $50 trillion transfer of wealth from middle America to the top 1% through changes in tax law, or a few hundred thousand children downstream of coal mines getting permanent neurological damage, or workers thinking that maybe they’d have better wages and benefits if they had a union. Now America is seeing clearly what the Republican coalition has brought us, from mass shootings to medical bankruptcies to student debt to homelessness. Literally none of these things were major societal problems the year Reagan was elected; all are the direct result of Republican policies, and all were made possible, in part, by this unholy alliance of church and state that our nation’s Founders warned us against. And now they’re coming for your birth control. Will enough Americans finally wake up to this 40-year grift to put an end to it and return our country to sanity? We’ll find out this November. HartmannReport.com
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/n...t-to-reject-charter-school-pushed-by-governor A charter school program tied to the controversial Hillsdale College suffered a third rejection by a Tennessee school board Tuesday night as the Clarksville-Montgomery County school board said it wanted nothing to do with the school pushed by Gov. Bill Lee. School board member Jimmie Garland said Lee needs to understand that local residents do not want a privately operated charter school siphoning taxpayer dollars from a school system that is already serving the community's needs. "I am asking him if he sends them here, that he pay for it — not the community, not the Clarksville-Montgomery County school system, not the 200,000-plus residents of Clarksville," Garland told NewsChannel 5 Investigates. This follows more than two weeks of controversy after NewsChannel 5 Investigates revealed hidden-camera video of Hillsdale President Larry Arnn badmouthing public school teachers and boasting that his charter school network planned to prove that no teaching expertise was needed, that "anybody can do it." Lee announced a "partnership" with Hillsdale College during his State of the State Address in January, and he has asked Arnn to set up 50-100 charter schools across the state. The governor has praised Hillsdale for its focus on "informed patriotism," although critics say the school presents a distorted, right-wing view of American history and politics.
Does this tweeter identify any misconduct by any of the three nominees, or does he just think that being a federal prosecutor should disqualify them from being a judge to the extent that he’s misrepresenting the nomination process to (in the colloquial sense) slander them?
He doesn’t name individual conduct, other than being a) prosecutors who b) voluntarily worked at an office that incarcerates black people 19 times more often than whites, and c) at least one of whom was nominated by Trump. I’ve heard nothing else about these nominees, and the above alone warrants additional vetting. I’m not saying throw them out based on that, but I am saying that more stories like these are concerning without additional scrutiny.
Don’t forget that they’re anti-science human cagers They don’t work for the same office, unless you call the Department of Justice an office. The senior most official is at DOJ headquarters, and the two AUSAs work in different divisions within the US Attorney’s Office for DC, one of them working federal cases and the other working offenses in the DC courts. All nominees to this office are selected by the Judicial Nominee Commission of the DC municipal government, which sends a list for the President to choose from, so identifying one as a “Trump nominee” is disingenuous at best. So maybe there is a continuing bias in favor of nominating prosecutors to the judiciary, but Biden has gone way far beyond any of his predecessors in terms of appointing public defenders to the bench as well.
They think human rights is something that needs to be “debated on” it’s why I tell people never use the term “culture war”